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The Great Leap Forward (1958-62)
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Mind Map on The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), created by sophj2012 on 14/09/2014.
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The Great Leap Forward (1958-62)
Communes (Social)
750,000 collectives brought into 70,000 communes
competition communes-officials lied about figures they had produced. Government took percent output, no food left
10x sizes of collectives
Backyard steel (industry)
Stopped people farming
Poor quality
Conspiracy of silence (social)
People to afraid to criticise because of anti-rightist campaign
Lushan conference (1959), Peng Deuai criticised method and was punished and kicked out of party.
Propaganda (social)
"Reach for the stars and the moon" - overtake capitalist countries.
enforced mass mobilisation
People shouted slogans to the workers in the farms
Self-reliance (social)
Mao fell out with USSR
Wanted China to be independent
Famine (social/farming)
45 million died
quarter of Tibets people died
people given 125g of grain a day - not enough
Poor farming methods (farming)
Sparrowcide, killed sparrows to stop eating grain but sparrows weren't there to kill worms and bugs
Bad weather - droughts 1959/1960 reduced to 144 million bones
Lysenkoism
deep planting, close together turned out spindly -wrong method
Family life (social)
Communes everyone put together with canteens and dorms to sleep in
Families didn't see each other
Elderlys in "happy homes" and babies in nurseries
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